How Many Images from a shoot do you process?

Hey everyone!
For those of you that shoot RAW, or even JPEG, what percentage (or number) of images do you actually process? I am so picky that each image takes me a good bit, although much less with C1 I think. In the past, I might only convert and process 8-10 images out of 250 or so from a very good day. On average days, I might only do 3 or 4. Mainly this is aq time and effort thing... I can't spend 4 hours per shoot just processing (it already take a good deal of time just to edit). What are you guys/gals doing?
Matthew

I probabbly process about two out of every 150 images. Not that the images I throw away are bad, but the luxury of digital is I never have to worry about running out of film so I may for example take 12 shots that are basically the same of a bird while I'm looking for slight changes in facial expression. Then I may keep one or none. I'll review a whole bunch of images on my browser that are basically the same, looking for one with subtle nuances.

Probably about 1 in 5.

Probably one out of every twenty shot.

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Well that's a tough and loaded question. Shooting digital and in RAW format, I'd say almost 90% of the images I take are correctly exposed and sharp. Got to love digital. I then edit these down and keep the ones with better composition, etc. Now how many of these do I process, depends what you mean by process, some I put up on my website, post some here, print some, and sell a few. Varies widely by subject and interest in the species. I think the better I get the more picky I become and throw more away.

By process do you mean how many I keep or how many I convert from Raw to Tiff and then do something with?

Drew

The more I shoot the less I shoot. In other words I am learning to be more selective.

Many folks say that since going digital they shoot more because it costs them little. I am just the opposite and shoot less since going digital since I know when I have a properly exposed image and there is no need for in-camera dupes. I know when it is safe to walk away from a subject with the image I want.

The last shoot I was on lasted 3 days and I clicked the shutter a TOTAL of 48 times. That doesn't seem like a whole lot but some of this had to do with poor weather and lighting conditions. Of the 48 I may have deleted 3 or 4 due to subject movement issues at slow shutter speeds and the rest I still have. I may have processed 3 or 4 that I am really happy with. I tend to keep more than I really need but you never know when someone will come calling for a particular image taken in a particular place.

Great question, but I have 2 different answers.

My first step is to identify any shots with poor metering. Delete. As my next step, I use Breezebrowser's 'Proof' option to proof an entire set of photos. Here are some sample settings:

Resize images to 1000x800 or so
Sharpen
Auto Levels
Output to jpg at 85%

This takes a few hours to run, as I normally come back from Africa with about 15GB of images from a 2 week trip.

After that, I have a better idea of what I captured. I also get my wife's opinions in the process, and she usually sees things that I didn't already see.

I end up processing and keeping about 25 images for my portfolio from that, and about 50 more additional photographs that are suitable for marketing material (lifestyle shots of other photographers shooting, life around the lodge, etc).

My keepers need to be greater than what I get currently, but I need to spend some time without other travelers to shoot for myself.

Matthew, for me it's simple. I keep and process only images that I would feel comfortable posting on NSN. I have no idea what percentage that is, but it is nowhere as high as EJ's. I throw away many technically good images that are similar to each other.

At any given moment, I retain all files that have been posted on NSN and NPN before that, and I have a pool of about 50-100 "candidate" images from which I select my next post. At least for the time being on NSN, I have been interspersing candidate images and images which I had posted on NPN.